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Jared Logan

A fiercely indignant nerd who refuses to apologize for his fixations.

1 special · 2013

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Jared Logan steps to the microphone and projects like a theater kid who just lost his mind. He handles mundane annoyances with the volume of a stage actor playing to the back row. His voice constantly climbs toward a yell, cracking just enough to sell his indignation. He does not play the meek, self-effacing nerd. Instead, he treats his dorkiness as a high-status trait, getting genuinely furious that the rest of the world refuses to accommodate his weird, specific demands.

Specials

On stage

When he explains why he failed at being a schoolyard bully, he does not ask for sympathy. He shouts about wizards and orcs with absolute, unearned bravado. The joke is always the scale of the reaction. He takes a tiny grievance and screams about it with such perfect diction that the premise simply gives out.

He spent a decade as a fixture of the Chicago and New York scenes. He became the kind of comic other comedians watch from the back of the room to see how a joke gets built.

Outside of clubs, he directs that energy into the tabletop roleplaying world. He runs campaigns for the Glass Cannon Network and his own actual-play streams, functioning essentially as the comedy community’s designated Dungeon Master.

He grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia, and that background occasionally peeks through the articulate shouting. Whatever room he plays, he builds tension entirely through breath and volume, riding a wave of righteous anger right up to the punchline.

Turning points

  1. Comedy Central Live at Gotham Feature

    After performing standup in Chicago, Logan appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, prompting his move to New York City.

  2. Filming The Half Hour Special

    Logan taped his own Half Hour special for Comedy Central in Boston after performing warm-up sets for the tapings the previous year.

At a glance

On stage
since 2003
Breakout
The Half Hour
Topics
Elsewhere
Website, Wikipedia

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    Co-hosted the weekly New York standup show Righteous Kill together.

    Photo: Doug Orleans from Somerville, MA, USA / CC-BY-SA-2.0

Also on screen

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Best Week Ever Regular cast member
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World's Dumbest Regular cast member

A clip to start with

Jared Logan - Comedy Up Late 2018 (S6, E3)

5 min · 3K views · on TheMelbComedyFest